Flag Cupcakes
These festive flag cupcakes are made with a simple boxed cake mix and topped with colorful red, white, and blue frosting. Perfect for patriotic holidays like the 4th of July or Memorial Day.
Servings: 18
Calories: 196kcal
Equipment
- Frosting tips - Wilton #32 (large star) for the blue field and the white and red stripes, and a #13 (small star) for the stars
- frosting pinin bag
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix plus ingredients from the directions (water, oil, eggs)
- 1 cup unsalted butter near room temperature
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- Red gel food coloring
- Blue gel food coloring
Instructions
- Prepare the cupcakes, according to box directions.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.
- For the frosting, beat the butter until smooth.
- Add the vanilla extract, and the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing until well combined.
- Add the #13 tip to a piping bag, and add about 1/4 cup of the frosting.
- Add about 3/4 cup of the frosting to a separate bowl. Add a generous amount of blue gel color, and mix until the color is incorporated.
- Add to a piping bag with a #32 tip.
- Use the blue frosting and make the blue section of the flag over 1/4 of each cupcake.
- Use the white frosting to add stars to the blue area.
- Take half of the remaining white frosting, and add to a piping bag with a #32 tip.
- Add a generous amount of red gel color to the remaining half, and mix until color is incorporated.
- Add the red frosting to a piping bag with #32 tip.
- Pipe the red and white stripes onto the cupcake.
Notes
Pro Tip - outline where you want the stripes to go with one dab of icing for each stripe before you add the rest of the frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 196kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 0.1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 2mg | Potassium: 4mg | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 315IU | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.02mg